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Flashes Face the League
 TVL # Varsity Boys (l-r) Nicolas Frias, Jose Almaguer, Adrian Mejia, Hugo Valdovinos, Isaac Gomez and Anthony Rivas. The boys took first place last Thursday in Carpinteria at the Tri-Valley League meet #1. Currently the Varsity Boys’ team is ranked #1 in Division 4 for both CIF Southern Section and in State. By Anonymous — Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
In an amazing day of intense cross country action the fan favorite team of Fillmore managed to play off their incredible abilities to power through the line and place high in the results for all divisions. The boys’ varsity in a spectacular effort finished 3rd through 7th and 9th letting only two runners finish ahead of them and only one runner to break up the group. They once again had tight grouping and managed to finish within 5 seconds of each other to earn the first place slot in the meet. This week’s runner of the meet for the boys’ varsity Adrian Mejia led the effort with a 17:04.6. Over the next 5.08 seconds the remaining boys Isaac Gomez, Hugo Valdovinos, Anthony Rivas and Jose Almaguer would cross the line. Nico Frias in an impressive effort finished in 17:27.48. The boys’ have now gotten an early lead with their first place team victory. The girls’ varsity was led by the charge of this week’s runner of the week Alexis Tafoya. The girls managed to hang on for a respectable 1:35 difference between scorers. Despite being banged up a bit with some injuries the girls surged for a fourth place overall finish. The girls’ junior varsity also had a great race, finishing 3rd overall with Briana Segoviano and Amber Wilmot leading the charge finishing within seconds of each other and anchoring a 1:48 spilt difference between the first 5 scorers. Amber had such a superb performance that she earned runner of the week for the JV girls. The junior varsity boys rounded out the day finishing 2nd overall with all 5 scorers in the top ten and all 7 placers in the top 20. Thirty four seconds separated the first place finisher Frank Chavez from 10th place finisher Sammy Martinez. Javier Rodriguez was the stand out performer of the day earning a coveted week in the spotlight with his JV boy runner of the week accomplishment. Up next the boys’ varsity team will head to the Stanford Invitational on Saturday while the rest of the team will travel to the Dos Pueblos Invitational in Santa Barbara on Friday. Full results: Boys Varsity Girls Varsity Girls JV Boys JV |
